Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Pureed ripe peaches, vanilla yogurt, agave nectar, and juicy chunks of peach come together to form a refreshing pop that hits the spot on a hot summer day.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Has your preschooler ever wanted to be a pirate? This fun activity will put her healthy imagination into action!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Save money and get creative by helping your preschooler create and make her own unique sketchbook to put her art in.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

This easy painting activity feels magical, especially when you use it for a secret message.